Creation in Public Schools?!

There have been a number of recent instances involving
school boards discussing the topic of creation/evolution in the public school
classroom, in science textbook disclaimers and so on.

On the one hand, it’s encouraging to see the increasing
interest from the public to put pressure on school boards in this issue.
The humanist elite is livid about this. It wants a monopoly on
the teaching of “molecules-to-man” evolution.

Public school teachers know that they can critically discuss different
theories in regard to just about every issue—but not evolution.
Even if a school board simply wants evolution to be critically analyzed (a good
teaching technique after all) without even mentioning creation or the Bible,
the ACLU and other humanists are immediately up in arms.* There
are the usual accusations of trying to get “religion” into schools
and that it’s a front for what they label as “fundamentalist Christianity.”

When the public school system threw out prayer, Bible readings, creation and the Ten Commandments—they didn’t throw out religion.

By the way, when the public school system threw out prayer,
Bible readings, creation and the Ten Commandments—they didn’t
throw out religion. They replaced the Christian worldview influence with
an atheistic one. The public schools, by and large, now teach that everything
a student learns about science, history, etc., has nothing to do with
God—it can all be explained without any supernatural reference.
This is a religious view—an anti-Christian view with which students
are being indoctrinated. Humanists know that naturalistic evolution is
foundational to their religion—their worldview that everything can
be explained without God. That is why they are so emotional when it comes
to the topic of creation/evolution.

Now we are certainly encouraged at AiG that there are moves in different places
to stop the censorship of the anti-Christian propagandists in the public schools
and allow students to, at the very minimum, question evolution as fact.
I am sure this is in part due to the influence of the creation ministries in
society and the plethora of creationist and anti-evolutionist material that
is now getting into parents’ and students’ hands. On the other
hand, Christians have to understand that fighting the evolution issue in public
schools is actually the same battle as fighting abortion, homosexual behavior,
pornography, etc. In other words, just as these issues are symptoms
of the foundational change in our culture (i.e. from believing that God’s
Word is the absolute authority to that of man’s opinions being the authority),
so the evolution issue is also a symptom of this same foundational change.

Thus, as much as we want to see students know that true
science confirms the Creation account in Genesis and that molecules-to-man
evolution is a blind-faith belief that flies in the face of much scientific
evidence—in the long run the battle will not be successful unless society
as a whole (and the church) returns to a basis in Biblical authority.
That’s why we spend so much energy at AiG to equip the church to restore
Biblical authority beginning with Genesis—then and only then will the
secular worldview of society be successfully challenged.